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Allergy Dos and Don'ts General Pediatrics Headaches Service Centres Skin Problems Sleep Stroke Rehabilitative Care Women's Health Youth Health
Allergy
Health Choices First - Allergy
Highlights: Health Choices First is a website provides a wealth of high quality patient education with exclusive health videos on different topics, which provide an overview of conditions and treatment options. Furthermore, it also provides a real-life case studies forum for doctors and patients to join in.
Highlights: The Allergic Living provides publics with the latest resources on different allergic conditions. From food allergies, celiac to asthma, from indoor allergies to outdoor allergies, experts connect viewers to different tips and advice, latest research, recipes and E-resources etc.
Highlights: The Food Allergy Canada provides patients, health care professionals, educators and foodservic the detailed information and reliable resources on different food allergies. Viewers can have a thorough look at food allergies and realize food allergies is not only exiting in food, but many other formats of products.
Dos and Don'ts
Choosing Wisely Canada
- Recommendation and Resources to doctors, by Specialty
Highlights: The Choosing Wisely Canada provides a wide range of knowledge on tests, treatments, and procedures. Patients can learn about when they are necessary and when they are not, and what patients can do to improve their health. Doctors can also explore on many recommations and resources by specialty. Medical providers and patients could use the Choosing Wisely Canada materials to determine an appropriate treatment plan together.
General Pediatrics
Health Choices First - Pediatrics
Highlights: Health Choices First is a website provides a wealth of high quality patient education with exclusive health videos on different topics, which provide an overview of conditions and treatment options. Furthermore, it also provides a real-life case studies forum for doctors and patients to join in.
Vaccination - Healthy Choices, Healthy Children (by Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care)
- Tips for parents for a positive immunization experience
Highlights: The Caring for Kids gathers information on different health topics, which apply to children and teens. The advanced search helps navigate through a wealth of information. Users can also find videos, articles as well as tips and tools that help parents to guide and communicate with their children and teens.
Highlights: AboutKidsHealth is a health education website for children, youth and their caregivers provided by Sick Kids Hospital. It is written in multiple languages on popular topics of kids health.
Highlights: The Mothercraft supports parents of children ages 6 months to 5 years, students studying early childhood education and professionals in the early child development field with a range of programs and services to meet the changing needs of families.
Highlights: Users have access to an alphabetized list of childhood problems and issues in Pediatric Advisor, which covers a wide range of different common pediatric concerns. This is a very handy place for parents to refer to.
Headaches
Health Choices First - Migraine and Headaches
Highlights: Health Choices First is a website provides a wealth of high quality patient education with exclusive health videos on different topics, which provide an overview of conditions and treatment options. Furthermore, it also provides a real-life case studies forum for doctors and patients to join in.
Highlights: The My Chronic Migraine connects patients to various information and tools to understand migraine, as well as to explore all treatment options.
Highlights: The Help For Headaches introduces viewers the detailed information on all kinds of headaches, with the focus on educating the community on the severity and symptoms of headaches, migraines and rare headaches. Patients can prepare themselves prior to doctor's appointment from education on headaches, tips on proper diagnosis, to options of effective treatments.
Service Centres
Peel Children's Centre (Peel Region)
Highlights: Centre provides mental health services and support to young people under the age of 18 and their families who are having serious issues with relationships, feelings, or behaviour.
Skin Problems
Health Choices First - Skin Issues
Highlights: Health Choices First is a website provides a wealth of high quality patient education with exclusive health videos on different topics, which provide an overview of conditions and treatment options. Furthermore, it also provides a real-life case studies forum for doctors and patients to join in.
Highlights: This website provides first-hand information of eczema. From types and treatments to recommended skincare products, it covers resources for both medical providers and patients.
Sleep
Highlights: A variety of practices and habits (sleep hygiene) can help turning restless sleep into restful slumber. Get to know the science behine your sleep and explore some useful tips on improving your sleep, and when to seek treatments.
Highlights: The Sleep Education explains all kinds of sleep disorders and conditions in details, as well as the treatment options. You can also learn them through videos on asorted topics.
Stroke
Highlights: The Stroke Engine provides information and resouces on different stages of stroke for families and health care professionals who work in the field: Just had a strok; Starting rehabilitation; Leaving the hospital soon; and Living with stroke.
What is a stoke? (YouTube from HealthSketch)
Rehabilitative Care
Rehabilitative Care Alliance - Find services
GTA Rehab Network - Find rehabs
Ontario Physiotherapy Association - Find A Physiotherapist
Highlights: Enter location and choose distance to search within Ontario. You can narrow it down by area, health concern, language, accesibility and payment, etc.
TJR (Total Joint Replacement) Publicly Funded Outpatient Rehab (OPR) Programs in the GTA - Accepting External Referrals
Highlights: Patients are able to locate the rehabilitative services and programs (covered by OHIP or private) within their region's boundaries with the possible exception of some specialized and OHIP funded clinics. Those services are Community-Based Rehabilitative Care, Condition or Population Based Rehabilitative Care (acquired brain injury, amputee, hip fracture and more), Hospital-Based Outpatient Rehabilitative Care and Inpatient Rehabilitative Care.
Women's Health
Health Choices First - Women's Health
Highlights: Health Choices First is a website provides a wealth of high quality patient education with exclusive health videos on different topics, which provide an overview of conditions and treatment options. Furthermore, it also provides a real-life case studies forum for doctors and patients to join in.
Women's Health Matters Virtual Health Centres
Highlights: Women's College Hospital creates various virtual health centres which provide tips on prevention and early detection of different illnesses (Bone and joint health, Breast cancer, Cervical cancer, Colorectal cancer, Diabetes, Endometrial cancer, Environmental health, Gynecological health, Heart health, Mental Health, Ovarian cancer, Sexual health, Skin cancer) to help women stay healthy.
Highlights: HPVinfo.ca is a site that developed and reviewed by health-care professionals, administered by the SOGC, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, which provides evidence-based information about the human papillomavirus.
Highlights: The Sex & U is an initiative of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, which provides reliable, accurate and up-to-date information on different topics related to sexual and reproductive health.
Highlights: YourPeriod.ca is the site gives up-to-date, expert information about menstruation,from concerns on abnormal pain and bleeding, endometriosis, fibroids, and other related conditions, to when should seek the doctor's help.
Highlights: Menopause and U is a site developed and reviewed by Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), teatches patients the facts, benefits and risks of available therapies, as well as some important health concerns to watch out for during this transition period.
Highlights: Monalisatouch is a treatment option for vaginal health.
Highlights: The Best Start Resource Centre provides parents and future parents and families the evidence-based resources on preconception health, prenatal health and early child development.
Highlights: The PregnancyInfo.ca developed and reviewed by Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), delievers various information on pregnancy and childbirth, factors affecting fertility and considerations after delivery (postpartum).
Highlights: The Fertility Matters Canada is the national organization that provides Canadians fertility resources on support, awareness, information and education. Patients can also search for the support groups and fetility clinic nearby.
Contraception
- ItsaPlan.ca View all types of contraception methods available in Canada.
- SOS Stay On Schedule A guide to taking hormonal contraception after a missed or extended dose.
What's Next for Me? - Guide to Emergency Contraception Options
Highlights: The What's Next for Me helps patients to locate their local sexual health services, including consultation on emergency contraception. They also educate patients on different sexual health concerns and connect patients to more related health resources.
Youth Health
Highlights: MediaSmarts is the Canada's centre for digital and literacy, providing adults with information and tools so they can help children and teens develop the critical thinking skills they need for interacting with the media they love.
Highlights: Cybertip.ca is operated by The Canadian Centre for Child Protection. It is a Canada's tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children.
Highlights: The Edge West provides comprehensive health care to the youth between 13-29 years old in Toronto's West end. Services including primary care, mental health support, legal aid and employment services. Service area is between Eglinton, Bloor, Bathurst, and Islington (plus Mt. Dennis). Drop ins and booked appointments are available Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
